First-time
feature director Tim Miller helms this witless,
wisecracking, lewd and irreverent Marvel’s
comic-book creation. Writers Rhett Reese and
Paul Wernick ply all their efforts to dumbing down the
superhero film to slurs, cheap rape jokes and
references to X-men.

The
former Special Forces operative turned
mercenary, Wade Wilson (Ryan
Reynolds), undergoes a rogue experiment
after he contacts cancer and that leaves him with
accelerated healing powers. The super-cool anti-hero,
adorned in a red spandex costume, seeks revenge on the
person who disfigured him. He uses his alter ego name
of Deadpool, as the scar-faced mutant plays it
footloose in superhero drag while showboating a foul
mouth.

The
shallow film makes no emotional connections with the
viewer. It's a novelty superhero film that rests on
showcasing extreme violence and extreme bad taste.
It's played for laughs. But I didn't find it funny.
It's exhaustively crude and smug, and never got off to
a good start with me. The film strikes me with the
same feelings the villain arms dealer played by Ed
Skrein says to the mutant, "I find you so relentlessly
annoying."